Not Fit for Composition

Hi everyone, hope 2025 was good! Sorry for the hiatus. I was busy. In this episode, we chat with friend of the pod Steven Michael Holmes about VHS archival work and our shared lore before we jump into a discussion of 2025's most viral TikTok poem, "I Met My Younger Self for Coffee" by Jennae Cecelia. At ~27:00, we begin our discussion of David Duchovny's new book of poetry, About T...

It's the new year! It's also inauguration day (boooo)! We're serving up something different for 2025's beefy first episode. First, we take a look at the year ahead with some literary predictions from writers across the lit space: Steff Yue Duhem, Tao Lin, Jill McDonough, Rachelle Toarmino, catch breath, Lloyd Schwartz, Kit Rosewater, Chelsey Minnis, and more contribute their foreca...

I bet you thought this podcast was dead. I bet the celebs thought they were safe from our scathing critiques. WRONG! To close out the year, we resurface like the dragons in "Reign of Fire" with guest Stephanie Yue Duhem to discuss: sweaty psychics, online lit journals, end rhymes, mulled wine, and the viral poem "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper" by Joseph Fasano. Then we...

Our first guest episode! We welcome dear friend and poet-colleague Bob Sykora to the podcast, where we talk about his upcoming book, Ivanka Trump's quatrain, grade school poems, the relevance of journals, and 90s folk-pop artist Jewel's book of poetry, "A Night Without Armor," published in 1998 by It Books. Jewel discussion starts at ~33:00 and boy did we have lots to say. Songs: &...

It's normie time. We talk about: ranking art forms (truncated convo), "coworker music," 2 viral poems about Gaza ("The Jesus Fridge" and "There's Laundry to Do and a Genocide to Stop"), and "Wild Hope" by bestselling/viral Scottish poet Donna Ashworth. Songs: "NFFC Theme" "Maples Ablaze (demo)" - Plum Wooer "The crudest thing Scarlett&#39...

Due to technical difficulties, this episode is woven together from two separate recordings. So just pretend the jarring cuts aren't there. In this one: August performs an opening monologue about Taylor Swift and AWP; we chat about Josh Brolin's Dune poems; and we're brought to the brink of insanity by "Titles Ruin Everything: A Stream of Consciousness" by Drake and Kenza Samir....

Did you know that 98% of podcasts never make it to a second episode? Just kidding, I made that up. In this one, we start off by talking about offing ourselves on mic, what kinds of plants we'd be, the Napoleon movie, and twitter sonnet discourse. Then we chat about tumblr chanteuse Lana Del Rey's book of poetry, "Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass" published by Simon & Schust...

Okay, so we recorded this pilot a few months ago. That's okay, who cares. Sue me. In this opening salvo, we (August Smith, Eleanor Eli Moss, and Marcus Khoury) discuss: the name of the podcast, how we know one another, geek culture, and slam poetry, all leading up to a discussion of Ernest Cline's putrid little tome, "The Importance of Being Ernest," published by Write Bloody in 20...